Injection point with ambiguous dependencies

Reports injection points in bean classes that have ambiguous dependencies.

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

CdiInjectionPointsInspection

Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | CDI (Contexts and Dependency Injection)

Example:

  interface Engine {}

  @Singleton
  class GasEngine implements Engine {}

  @Singleton
  class ElectricEngine implements Engine {}

  @Singleton
  class Car {
    @Inject Engine engine; // Ambiguous dependency: there are multiple beans that match the injection point
  }

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection CdiInjectionPointsInspection

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025